Jim Martin

This has inexplicably made it into paperback. 70th on the Sunday Times hardback list now constitutes a 'best-seller'. Intriguing.

Pitch: artificial. Programme: yes, and it's excellent. Food: none. Not just no vegetarian food, no food whatsoever. A first.

Today I'm at Moneyfields v Horndean in the Isthmian League. Moneyfields is a suburb of Portsmouth. A lot of England flags and Union Jacks on lamp-posts. Not, I suspect, in a good way.

Today's amazing fact: in Costa Rica they don't have street names or house numbers.

So if you want to send something you have to give a vague set of directions in the right town.

I'll be honest, I am not optimistic my package is going to arrive.

Two B'bury authors with cover quotes (one mine) adds extra insult to injury.

'Well done for spelling 'maths' correctly' is the best rejoinder I can muster.

I may not know much, but that this subtitle somehow got approved is troubling.

Hats off to staff at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social for this pleasingly subversive piece of book placement.

@timsmedley.bsky.social yeah OK. (I am in Foyles BTW)

Big week, Darren.

How did this even originate? Awful.

Realised today that I have never knowingly been for drinks with an agent.

This is a lapse. All the real trade publishers do it. I am clearly off the pace here.

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What a wonderful piece. Thanks.

Yes this is a tough one.

Jimi Hendrix in red.

There's a mind-blowing Jimi Hendrix concert on BBC4 iPlayer at the moment. Atlanta Festival 1970. Heard bits of it but never seen it before.

You are thanked in the paper's acknowledgements!

I reject your pedantry outright.

Neolithic Great Auk capture ILLUSTRATED. Mind is blown.

Every day, I open my email to find something intractable that I can't solve. It's wearing.

Today's recovery movie is The Running Man, with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Inexplicably I've never watched this before. Enjoying bunkum.

Ill on the sofa. The Thursday Murder Club ft. Mirren, Imrie, Kingsley and Brosnan is bringing me the good cheer I needed.

Shout out to the photo on this cover for making me scared of stairs between the ages 11-the present day

Yep. Same here.

Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking a book by Alice Vernon. A social, historical and scientific exploration of ghost-hunting, and why our fascination with the paranormal is as timeless as the ghosts we hope to find.The history of ghosts is ancient, but the his...

Out TODAY - this magnificent new book by
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Brogen Murphy wins the Children's Fiction award for Wildlands. Which does sound very very good. #wainwrightprize

Ben Hoare triumphs in the Jim Martin derby. Big win for Benj. Bees FTW.

The big one. @benhoare.bsky.social v @juleshoward.bsky.social (among others). Heavyweight children's non-fiction action. Jess French adjudicates. #wainwrightprize

Nature writing book of the year is Raising Hare by @chloedalton.bsky.social. Bravo. A very worthy winner. #wainwrightprize